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Flying Kites on the Bay
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When i first opened the image i thought “its very dark. but the colours in the sails and relections in the water are real nice”
This is a nice shot Joseph i do like it.
I would have possibly panned it down a little to show more of the nice reflections in the water and shown slightly less sky.
Really like the colours of the sails and how the sails leads you from left to right through the picture.
The darkness of the sky is not consistent throughout the image i do understand that the light source is off the top left. I would possibly dodge the right hand side a bit to balance it up a little but i would still leave the right hand side a little darker that the left side.
Might also be worth trying a version where you do an S shaped curve to really bring the light source out in the picture on the left hand side in the sky and make it moodier
Might be worth trying a version where the whole image is brightened up a little and less dark just to see if it works any better.
Possibly a bit of noise above left of the boat on the far right. Might want to have a look at this if you intend making a print.
My laptop monitor is not calibrated which it needs to be to see this type of image correctly so i might be incorrect with some of suggestions around dodging and brightening the image upMartin
Cheers Martin-
It was wonderful light-
heavy cloud, and bright shafts-The lens does show some vignetting in such conditions,
and I think a little is being shown here-There is a little more of the sea,
but this is pretty much full frame, after rotation-
anyone who says you should always compose in the viewfinder has obviously never taken pictures from a small boat in a rough chop-I’m not a big fan of local adjustments, in general-
I just have far too many pictures, for one thing-There’s reasonably good detail in this one, considering the conditions, and the sea spray-
and I wasn’t using a hood, which would have helped-
at least until it would have been knocked off and into the sea-Its hardly surprising that my boat pictures don’t get many comments-
I suppose you’d need to be interested in boats first-So thanks for that one-
j
Nice one Joseph. I’m not a fan of boats myself but the colours in this one really make this an attractive shot. Was this a night shot or a little bit of work on your part? There’s definately a sence of action and speed in this image.
Nice one.
Alan.
PS – It’s always quiet on the weekends – wait till Sunday night!!!
This looks like a very fine shot indeed, to my untutored eye.
Martin’s educated observations aside, there’s something almost
revelatory about the light shining off the spinnakers – like chariots
of fire and angels wreathed in gold and stuff.The sea has a hard-edged, brittle look about it that is at odds with the sky,
and the horizon has a line that looks quite unreal, but neither of these
complaints is enough to ruin a very nice picture.Thanks Alan, Pete-
Not a boat fan?
surely everyone loves boats-It was shot in late evening-
about an hour before sundown-
The light gets like this from time to time;
I missed an even better display the week before-
Its really breathtaking-Pete? Poetic?
I feel honoured-The light on the kites males them light up like, well, light bulbs-
which tones down everything else and makes it darker.The line in the background is the coast road to Dunleary-
there’s detail in the full sized version-Dynamic range was pushed hard in this one-
leading to that brittle look in the sea that you mentioned-Anyway, glad you like it-
and thanks for the comments-j
When was that? Dun L on Thursday evening? Very unusual light for a sailing photo. If the boat in the middle was mine I’d would kill to have a print … in fact it’s looks like Miss Whiplash. Did it have a grey hull by any chance?
Actaully my first thought was ‘that blue kite looks decent’ followed by ‘looks a bit rock and roll in the back ground’. On the ground that the other boats aren’t trimmed particularly well or there’s an inconvinient shadow that makes thing look worse than they actually are I would have been tempted to crop it to just the centre boat and the two in the back ground with out a kite up.
This morning would have been a good one for being out on the water round at Howth! Plenty of boats out and much carnage afoot for the first race of the Autum league. It felt like I spent a third of the race under water.
Cheers rm-
good to have your reaction-
would love to have more people killing each other for prints-
One day…Yes, Thursday evening, Dunleary, couple of weeks ago-
What’s your sail number?
Miss Whiplash doesn’t ring a bell-
I’m sure I would have remembered that one-I was in Howth a couple of weeks ago –
but that was for the 31.7’s,
and I don’t think you sail them…I’m about halfway through cataloguing my sailing shots-
you never know, could be something there-j
I’m bow and some time tactician on Superhero in Howth. I have friends who where at the 31.7s though. Tigger, Eauvation and C’est la Vie.
(The numbers are up for yester day. 177 entires, 140 starters … 50 retired with broken gear. All in all a superb days sailing if you could keep the rig in the boat!)
Superhero doesn’t ring a bell-
though sail numbers are easier to catalogue than names-
Keywording is such a chore when the pictures number in the thousands-If they were at the Nationals, then I have pictures-
mostly in terrible light though- but some good ones-Sounds like a good day out yesterday,
quite the opposite to your stallathon on the Lambay earlier this year-j
Much more our kind of weather.
Will have to find out about sail numbers.Wonderful.
Why don’t my sailing pictures look like that?
Wonderful things, boats. Everyone should love them…Rob.
Rob wrote:
Why don’t my sailing pictures look like that?
Rob.Now you don’t think I’m gonna bring you out on a boat and share my light?
One thing at a time Rob-
rm, I had a look,
I do have some good ones of those boats you mentioned-
though you’ll have to tell me the sail number of Superhero-
I don’t have that name anywhere-Something tells me that its doubtful if I have any-
you’re probably much too fast,
or sail in the right direction,
or something-j
I love this!
Really really rich and dreamy looking.
Love the evening sun shining through the sails.Makes a good tribute to the end of summer.
Shar
End of Summer?
when did it begin?Thats more like the end of the world,
as we know it,
kind of light-Thanks Sharon :wink:
j
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